The recent "pickers with previews" overhaul left the picker
sizing/presentation API spread across several overlapping knobs that
every call site had to set correctly — and many didn't, causing pickers
across the app to render at the wrong width, lose their container, or
stop dismissing. This PR consolidates that surface into a small,
hard-to-misuse API and makes correct sizing the default.
Net effect: a plain `Picker::uniform_list(delegate, …)` now renders
correctly out of the box (standard width, standard max-height, shrinks
to fit, dismisses properly), and the ~35 call sites only specify what
genuinely differs.
## API changes
**Presentation** — three overlapping booleans (`is_modal`, `is_popover`,
`is_resizable`) collapsed into one enum, with resizability living inside
the only variant where it's meaningful:
```rust
enum Presentation {
Modal { resizable: bool }, // own chrome, dismisses on blur, optionally resizable
Popover, // own chrome, dismisses on blur, never resizable
Embedded, // host container owns chrome + dismissal
}
```
- `modal(bool)` is **removed** in favor of explicit, self-documenting
builders:
- *(default)* → `Modal` (resizable iff it has a preview)
- `.popover()` → `Popover` (menu-attached surfaces)
- `.embedded()` → `Embedded` (pickers nested in a larger modal/view)
- Dynamic callers use `.when(cond, Picker::embedded)` (added `impl
FluentBuilder for Picker`).
**Sizing** — preview-vs-not now drives everything; the manual padding
knob is gone:
| Before | After |
|---|---|
| `vertical_padding` field + `no_vertical_padding()` | removed — derived
from whether a preview is visible |
| `height(...)` (ambiguous: fixed vs max) | `max_height(...)` (plain
pickers shrink-to-fit, capped here) |
| `minimum_results_width(...)` | removed — a plain picker's min width
tracks its opening width; preview pickers use standard internal pane
mins |
| default size = 60% viewport | default = `DEFAULT_MODAL_WIDTH` (34rem)
× `DEFAULT_MODAL_MAX_HEIGHT` (24rem, max) |
| resize handles gated on `is_modal` | gated on `is_resizable` (new
`resizable(bool)` builder; auto-`true` for preview pickers) |
Call sites now only override the exceptions: narrow popover selectors
(`initial_width`), the taller outline view (`max_height`), and preview
pickers (constructed via `*_with_preview`).
## Behavior fixes
- **Wrong widths everywhere**: pickers were falling back to
60%-of-viewport because the original migration set
`minimum_results_width` but never `initial_width`. Fixed at the source
via the new defaults.
- **Popovers had no container and wouldn't dismiss**: `is_modal=false`
was suppressing both the elevated background *and* blur-dismiss. Split
out so popovers keep their chrome and dismiss on click-away/escape. This
fixed the agent-panel model/profile selectors, sidebar recent projects,
and the settings theme/font/icon/ollama pickers (which were incorrectly
using `modal(false)`).
- **Sidebar recent projects stretched to full height**: was missing the
shrink-to-fit behavior; now capped and content-sized like other
popovers.
- **Preview crash**: removed an over-strict `debug_assert!` that
panicked when previewing an empty file (`message == None && editor
empty` is valid).
- **Preview-aware default size**: pickers open at standard width with
the preview hidden, and expand to the larger "telescope" size when a
preview is shown. Fixes the text finder rendering super-wide by default,
and makes the file finder expand (rather than cram its results) when you
toggle the preview.
---
Release Notes:
- N/A
# Objective
- Fixes#59643.
## Problems
- Initial and minimum width was not migrated for all pickers.
- Some pickers had their width still determined by their wrapper.
- Some pickers where not modals but did not have modal false set.
## Solution
- Migrate the pickers we missed.
- Remove the width being set on the div's wrapping the pickers.
- Set modal false on the missed pickers.
## Self-Review Checklist:
- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [x] The content adheres to Zed's UI standards
([UX/UI](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
and
[icon](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/icons/README.md)
guidelines)
- [x] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable
Release Notes:
- N/A
Overhauls Zed's pickers to make them resizable and give them a preview.
Closes#8279
### Background
The most requested Zed feature has the last year has been a [Telescope
like search box](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/8279)
[discussion](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/discussions/22581).
To understand why this is so popular we need to understand search can
serve thee goals:
- Navigation: fuzzy search is faster & easier then clicking in a file
tree
- Exploration: example, find a function by a word in its doc comment
- Collecting: example, getting a list of functions to change
The project search which shows results in a multibuffer is the perfect
way to operate on a list of items. Navigation and Exploration need a lot
of context around each result and offer fast navigation between them.
For both of these live searching is also critical.
The `telescope UI` is a picker with a preview to the right or below.
It's offered in various editors and IDE's most famously Neovim (through
the Telescope plugin), IntelliJ (natively), Helix (natively) and of
course VScode (plugins) and it's _many_ forks.
While having a UI like that for text search (our project search) is most
requested the UX pattern is applied widely, from `find_all_references`
to `bookmarks`. It enhances most pickers. Note that we have over 50
different picker modals!
The community has tried to build something like this for Zed:
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/44530
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/45307
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478
- https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/43790
These all became huge PR's that we could not merge for various reasons.
This is a really hard feature to integrate in Zed!
This PR got started as https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/pull/46478
and supercedes that.
### Design
- Extend pickers to support an optional preview with minimal changes to
the pickers themselves.
- Make pickers resizable.
- Complement the existing search do not replace it by having both UI's
share the underlying search and allow freely switching between them.
- Allow extending the preview to things other then files.
- Maintain a clean design on all the pickers.
### Heigh level Implementation overview
- Adds an `Option<Preview>` to `Picker`
- Gives `PickerDelegate` a method to communicate a preview to the Picker
- Overhaul the way pickers are drawn to allow for resizing them.
Implemented on the `Shape` and `SizeBouds` structs.
- Adds a high level way to draw the `footer` and `editor` so we do not
need to change much to the pickers.
- Adds a new text finder Picker
- Adds a way to take a running search from project search and hand it to
the text finder Picker and the other way round
- Give the file finder a preview
### Next steps
A more detailed list and how to help out will be added to the tracking
issue for [Pickes with
previews](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/56037)
- Add more previews to more pickers!
- Enable selectioning multiple items in pickers and performing actions
on those
- Open selected items in a multibuffer
- Add a way to restore the last picker
- Make popovers (picker attached to some menu) resizable as well
## Self-Review Checklist:
- [x] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [x] The content adheres to Zed's UI standards
([UX/UI](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
and
[icon](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/crates/icons/README.md)
guidelines)
- [x] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable
## Showcase
TODO (will be done post merge)
---
Release Notes:
- Added resizing via dragging to all picker modals.
- Added a preview to the File finder, the preview can be to the right or
below.
- Added a Text finder picker with a preview as alternative project
search UI. The search is shared and allowes switch between UIs while
running.
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Co-authored-by: ozacod <ozacod@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
## Context
This PR introduces a `base` field for settings profiles to allow
profiles to either overlay `user` settings or to overlay `default`,
which is simply zed's defaults (user settings are skipped). I'm not
entirely sure I love `default` because it's a bit confusing (there's a
setting called `default` but the default is `user`). Another idea I had
was `factory` (`user` (default) or `factory`) - curious to hear from the
reviewers. This will be useful for those of us who need to quickly flip
to a default state, or a default state with some customizations on top.
Additionally, from what I can tell, VS Code's profile system is more in
line with what this PR is offering in Zed - profiles overlay the default
settings, not the user's customization layer. So this will be familiar
for those users.
I've had no issue with the migrator, code is pretty simple there, but
would love for @smitbarmase to review the migration to make sure I'm not
missing something.
## Self-Review Checklist
<!-- Check before requesting review: -->
- [X] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [x] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [ ] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
- [X] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [x] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable
Release Notes:
- Improved the flexibility of settings profiles by offering a way for
profiles to lay atop of zed defaults, skipping user settings all
together. Settings Profiles now take the following form.
```json5
"Your Profile": {
"base": "user" // or "default"
"settings": {
// ...
},
},
```
Self-Review Checklist:
- [ ] I've reviewed my own diff for quality, security, and reliability
- [ ] Unsafe blocks (if any) have justifying comments
- [ ] The content is consistent with the [UI/UX
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
- [ ] Tests cover the new/changed behavior
- [ ] Performance impact has been considered and is acceptable
Closes #ISSUE
Release Notes:
- N/A
This will help with test times (in some cases), as nextest cannot figure
out whether a given rdep is actually an alive edge of the build graph
Closes #ISSUE
Before you mark this PR as ready for review, make sure that you have:
- [ ] Added a solid test coverage and/or screenshots from doing manual
testing
- [ ] Done a self-review taking into account security and performance
aspects
- [ ] Aligned any UI changes with the [UI
checklist](https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#uiux-checklist)
Release Notes:
- N/A
Release Notes:
- Added agent panel restoration. Now restarting your editor won't cause
your thread to be forgotten.
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Co-authored-by: Eric Holk <eric@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Eid <anthony@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Mikayla Maki <mikayla.c.maki@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Cameron Mcloughlin <cameron.studdstreet@gmail.com>
It's happeningggggg
Release Notes:
- Changed the Agent Panel so that the Active Thread is restored on
restart.
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Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <daniloleal09@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Anthony Eid <anthony@zed.dev>
Co-authored-by: Danilo Leal <67129314+danilo-leal@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard Feldman <richard@zed.dev>
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We've been considering removing workspace-hack for a couple reasons:
- Lukas ran into a situation where its build script seemed to be causing
spurious rebuilds. This seems more likely to be a cargo bug than an
issue with workspace-hack itself (given that it has an empty build
script), but we don't necessarily want to take the time to hunt that
down right now.
- Marshall mentioned hakari interacts poorly with automated crate
updates (in our case provided by rennovate) because you'd need to have
`cargo hakari generate && cargo hakari manage-deps` after their changes
and we prefer to not have actions that make commits.
Currently removing workspace-hack causes our workspace to grow from
~1700 to ~2000 crates being built (depending on platform), which is
mainly a problem when you're building the whole workspace or running
tests across the the normal and remote binaries (which is where
feature-unification nets us the most sharing). It doesn't impact
incremental times noticeably when you're just iterating on `-p zed`, and
we'll hopefully get these savings back in the future when
rust-lang/cargo#14774 (which re-implements the functionality of hakari)
is finished.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Before this change the active theme and icon theme were retrofitted onto
the ThemeSettings.
Now they're in their own new global (GlobalTheme::theme(cx) and
GlobalTheme::icon_theme(cx))
This lets us remove cx from the settings traits, and tidy up a few other
things along the way.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Closes#5355
Release Notes:
- Fixed rendering glitches with files with more than 16 million lines
(that occured due to floating number rounding errors).
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This PR fixes a regression where settings profiles were no longer
ordered in the same order that the user defined in their settings.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Closes#37617
We're already using `get` in a bunch of places, this PR updates the
remaining spots to follow the same pattern. Note that the `ix` we read
in `render_match` can sometimes be stale.
The likely reason is that we run the match-update logic asynchronously
(see
[here](138117e0b1/crates/picker/src/picker.rs (L643))).
That means it's possible to render items after the list's [data
update](138117e0b1/crates/picker/src/picker.rs (L652))
but before the [list
reset](138117e0b1/crates/picker/src/picker.rs (L662)),
in which case the `ix` can be greater than that of our updated data.
Release Notes:
- Fixed crash when filtering MCP tools.
This removes around 900 unnecessary clones, ranging from cloning a few
ints all the way to large data structures and images.
A lot of these were fixed using `cargo clippy --fix --workspace
--all-targets`, however it often breaks other lints and needs to be run
again. This was then followed up with some manual fixing.
I understand this is a large diff, but all the changes are pretty
trivial. Rust is doing some heavy lifting here for us. Once I get it up
to speed with main, I'd appreciate this getting merged rather sooner
than later.
Release Notes:
- N/A
After playing with this for a bit, I realize it does not feel good to
not have control over the order of profiles. I find myself wanting to
group similar profiles together and not being able to.
Release Notes:
- N/A
This PR just pins down the behavior of the settings profile selector by
checking a single setting, `buffer_font_size`, as options in the
selector are changed / selected.
Release Notes:
- N/A
Settings Profiles
- [X] Allow profiles to be defined, where each profile can be any of
Zed's settings
- [X] Autocompletion of all settings
- [X] Errors on invalid keys
- [X] Action brings up modal that shows user-defined profiles
- [X] Alphabetize profiles
- [X] Ability to filter down via keyboard, and navigate via arrow up and
down
- [X] Auto select Disabled option by default (first in list, after
alphabetizing user-defined profiles)
- [X] Automatically select active profile on next picker summoning
- [X] Persist settings until toggled off
- [X] Show live preview as you select from the profile picker
- [X] Tweaking a setting, while in a profile, updates the profile live
- [X] Make sure actions that live update Zed, such as `cmd-0`, `cmd-+`,
and `cmd--`, work while in a profile
- [X] Add a test to track state
Release Notes:
- Added the ability to configure settings profiles, via the "profiles"
key. Example:
```json
{
"profiles": {
"Streaming": {
"agent_font_size": 20,
"buffer_font_size": 20,
"theme": "One Light",
"ui_font_size": 20
}
}
}
```
To set a profile, use `settings profile selector: toggle`